Instant Search Coming to Bing

An HTML5-powered version of Bing is on the way, and the search engine is touting new features on a preview site that include "search previews as you type" (a.k.a., Instant Search), "animations that make search come alive," and "seamless transitions between pages."

"The company is planning to unveil the first public preview of Bing HTML5 to coincide with the release to web of Internet Explorer 9," according to WinRumors. It could be officially unveiled at MIX11 in April.

Although the preview site is live, seems you can't turn on HTML5 Bing quite yet. Bing announced many new features when the IE9 beta launched in September, which we covered here.

Here's the preview video from September showing off some of the new Bing HTML5 features:

Another interesting sidenote: Developer Long Zheng created Real Live Search, a version of "instant search" that used Bing results in August 2009 -- a full year before Google Instant. Yes, Bing could've easily implement this long before Google Instant launched.

About the author

Danny Goodwin formerly was Associate Editor of Search Engine Watch, where he also covered the latest search marketing and industry news. He joined Incisive Media in October 2007, in charge of copy editing columns that appeared on both Search Engine Watch and ClickZ. Prior to a life in the search industry, he worked in the journalism field, working in numerous newsroom positions, before later working as a freelance copy editor.

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